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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.
Bicycle Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Caminade: three articles, a Timeline of 23 dated events from 1896 to 1951 and three documents in the archive.
The history of Caminade on Ebykr.


Pierre Caminade's Caminargent bicycles of the 1930s: aluminum frames with cast lugs, octagonal tubes and take-apart couplings, decades ahead of their time.
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Nearly a century before swoopy modern wonderbikes claimed aluminum frames and quick-disassembly travel bikes as innovations, Pierre Caminade had already built them. Working from a small Parisian atelier, Caminade pursued an…


The build sheet of a 1937 Caminade Caminargent Bordeaux-Paris from the Embacher Collection: octagonal aluminum tubes, bolted lugs and a Stronglight crank.
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